Vapor-burning stove.



UNITED STATES `Patented April 11, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

VAPOR-BURNING STOVE- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 786,944, dated April 11, 1905.

Application filed September 8, 1903. Serial No. 172,305.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT O. BARRIE, a citiy zen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vapor-Burning Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to gasolene-burning stoves and their liability to endanger life and property during preliminary ignition and subsequent use and provisionally-increased cooking utilities. Y

The object of my invention seeks to obvi'ate such dire possibilities by means of the warming-plate and safety mechanism, described as follows.

The figure shows a front perspective view of a stove and the several parts in their respective position. l

In the figure, number 2 indicates a stovetop; number 3, the burners thereof; number 4, the oil-tank, and number 5 the usual vertical feed-pipe. In case a stove lack this latter feature, it will be necessary to furnish an extra standing rod, secured to the stove-top 2, which, like pipe', is to receive and support an ordinary joint-casting 6, through which the rod 7 may slide or revolve when moving the attached plate 8 into any axial plane directly labove or behind either burner, as desired, the

rod and casting being held in position by adjusting-screws indicated at 10 and 11.

Operation: To effectuate properl results from gasolene-stoves, one may manipulate the device in various ways, as follows: First, loosen both screws and move 6 to a proper height upon 5. The distance from 2 should equal half the transverse diameter of disk 8. Next bring the plate into a horizontal plane over the desiredl burner 3 and lower it to the proper heating-pointand tighten aforesaid screws. Next, in a customary manner Ell the cup 9 beneath with oil and light the same. It will now be evident that said disk will serve to deliect the gas-Hanne and arrest smoke arising therefrom, and thus incidentally guard tank 4 from present possible explosion and also prevent unsightly besmearance `of the ceiling above. It may further serve as a cooking or warming griddle or a supporting-shelf for kitchen utensils when not otherwise in use. Secondly, one may again slacken both screws and swing the plate into a perpendicular plane directly behind the chosen burner. (See dotted lines in the drawing.) When so placed, the disk will prevent radiant heat, escaping steam, or sputtering grease from soiling adjacent wall decoration during the various cookingprocesses. Thus the said plate as a devised protector may serve to minimize the present liability of property disfigurement and .disastrous tank explosions.

Therefore I herewith point out that which I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, which is- In a gasolene-stove, the combination of a reservoir, a feed-pipe communicating with the burner located on the stove and a rotary, longitudinally and vertically adjustable protecting-plate mounted on the feed-pipe, or a similar vertical standard, and located between the burner-openings in the stove and thereservoir, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT o. BARBIE.

VVit-nesses:

JULIA SoHoLL, MAY FULTON. 

